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S. PrenticeThe Future of Workplace Fearhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8101-7_1

1. The Fear Lies Deep

Steve Prentice1  
(1)
Toronto, ON, Canada
 

The movie Jaws came out in the summer of 1975 and, to this day, it remains an unmatched case study of fear in its deepest, simplest, and most sublime form. There have been scary movies for as long as there have been movies, but in most of these, the monster, or the bad guy with the knife, comes into view very quickly, and the enjoyability factor of the film is the suspense the viewers feel while they wait for the inevitable confrontation. But few films can make something scary out of nothing. Jaws was one of those. ...

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